The garage block stood on its own inside a small walled courtyard. I looped all the way around the carriage circle again and headed down the south side of the house. Duke shook himself awake and followed him. I ignored him and hustled up the driveway and stopped on the carriage circle right next to the door.

The lights were blazing all along the top of the wall. I came up on the palm-shaped promontory and drove out onto the rock finger and aimed straight for the house. I drove smoothly and gently and found all the right roads. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.But no phones rang the whole way home.

Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. All have been optioned for major motion pictures-including Jack Reacher (based on One Shot) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.

Petersburg Times About The Author Lee Child is the author of twenty-one New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, twelve of which have reached the #1 position. so fast-paced it makes the eyeballs spin.-Orlando Sentinel A story that will sweep you along as fast as some of the riptides Reacher survives.-St. Childs tale drives hard and fast.-Los Angeles Times Book Review Wickedly addictive. Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.-The Denver Post A page-turner. Petersburg Times Review Quotes Gripping and suspenseful. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence-and confront some unfinished business from his own past. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lords waterfront fortress. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. And with a burning desire to right wrongs-and rewrite his own agonizing past.

Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.-The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. About the Book Includes an excerpt from: Gone tomorrow.

Persuader by Lee Child